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sprucing

verb

present participle of spruce

as in embellishing

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In a competitive job market, appearing behind can feel riskier than embellishing skills.

— Susan Jacobson, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
There was no embellishing symbol, no longer a visual bow to the crown.

— Dr. Matthew Warshauer, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2026

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Fedorov, previously Ukraine’s minister for digital transformation, had been in the job for just six months and was popular among troops for improving pay and frontline rotations.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
Intel's willingness to buy these expensive machines is a positive signal that its foundry (chip industry-speak for manufacturing) is expanding capacity and improving yields for leading-edge chips.

— Jeff Marks, CNBC, 15 July 2026

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What’s far more eloquent is the episode with the witch Circe (a terrific Samantha Morton), whose habit of tricking and transforming men into animals is rendered in evocatively physical, body-horror-esque imagery.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 July 2026
From there Nebula chained a handful of steps to escalate the dangling pointer into full control, ending by tricking the kernel into executing their code as root.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026

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Skau warned that as attention turns towards ameliorating the security crisis, resources should not be taken away from addressing the surging humanitarian needs, which include more than 5 million people who do not have enough to eat.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
Taking control of the narrative is the first step to ameliorating the damage.

— David Rivera, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026

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